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Harold Finch ([personal profile] ornithologist) wrote 2025-07-08 01:26 am (UTC)

You think being surprised I would help protect any child without conditions means you're successfully being unbiased?

This is a complicated topic. The truth is, rules don't always work. Laws can be unjust. And fairness is not equality. I designed the Machine initially as a set of algorithms, but if I thought that was all that was necessary to protect people, that's all it would have remained.

What made her finally work is when she learned how to care.

To misquote Jonathan Swift, you cannot apply reason to something that was not arrived at by reason in the first place. If we really value life, there must be exceptions.

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